Example sentences of "[prep] [art] people to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One vicar said there was no longer provision in the Church of England liturgy for such a service ; the blessing was regarded as the remains of a pre-Christian ritual , and with modern maps it was no longer necessary for the people to be shown the physical boundaries . |
| 2 | The state stands for , in an abstract sense , the final repository of agreement of the people to be ruled , and therefore an ultimate legitimation , backed up in the last instance , by the state 's claim to the monopoly of legitimate use of force . |
| 3 | The paradox of today 's Lords is that it is this weird and undemocratic assortment of characters , largely there by freak of birth , that is more inclined to call for the will of the people to be tested . |
| 4 | In 1979 , J. A. G. Griffith , Professor of Public Law at the London School of Economics , made the point that : " it is still quite common to hear the constitution described — even lovingly described — as a piece of machinery cleverly and subtly constructed to enable the will of the people to be transmitted through its elected representatives who make laws instructing its principal committee , the Cabinet , how to administer the affairs of the state , with the help of an impartial civil service and under the benevolent wisdom of a neutral judiciary . |
| 5 | I know I am only a layman , but I seem to remember that when the pits were taken over by the government , they became the property of the people to be run by the government . |
| 6 | Ten minutes later we had a garbled appeal to the outside world from a Danuese patriot , mentioning injustices , famine , and the burning desire of a people to be free . |
| 7 | In 1724 a popular insurrection was organized among farmers , crofters , gypsies , and labourers against the Galloway lairds , who were enclosing with dykes land considered by the people to be held in common . |